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Kaweco Should Consider Proprietary Cartridges


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It just looks so wrong. A longer cartridge would look so much better, and considering that they make a lot of short pens it would make sense economically (I think).

Hero #232 Blue-Black is my Waterman Florida Blue.

 

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Using standard cartridges makes it easy for the common pen user to get to ink if needed. I guess that's the thought behind it. Well, isn't that the thought about standards altogether?

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Propietary cartridges can be hard to find . Standard cartidges can be very cheap and you can find many ink colors from different brands. :unsure:

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The Ice Sport is the only model with a clear barrel. Doesn't make sense to develop and produce a different size cart for only one model.

But I agree, it doesn't look nice. On the other hand, you can use it as an ED.

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There is a nice length of clear plastic for a personal photo.

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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I believe Jinhao has some cartridges which are a bit longer than the standard short ones. The capacity seems to be the same though.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/268585-jinhao-cartridge-inks-blue-and-black/

Why, you're right! Just tried it though and the grooves at the end of the barrel stop the cart from going all the way back.

Hero #232 Blue-Black is my Waterman Florida Blue.

 

Your Kilometrage May Vary (#ykmv), a Philippine blawg about ink and fountain pens.

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Kaweco should consider other filling options.. piston or even some form of sac based self filler :)

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It just looks so wrong. A longer cartridge would look so much better, and considering that they make a lot of short pens it would make sense economically (I think).

 

The Kaweco Sport Ice model you have in the photograph has been modified. As they come from the factory there is a stainless steel plug at the distal end of the barrel. It's supposed to give the short, light plastic pen some heft, I think. Those are longitudinal ridges visible inside the end of the barrel in your photograph. They are what grips the stainless steel plug.

 

Anyway, your Sport doesn't have that plug. As the Kaweco Sport comes from the factory you can't fit much more than a short international cartridge in one.

 

I remember a certain vendor was at a pen show some years ago and he was hot about converting Kaweco Sports to eye dropper fillers. He was selling them that way and then he got into encouraging people to make DIY eye droppers out of Kaweco Sports. So he took an ice model to show me how and he started pounding it, open end down, on a table :headsmack: , made rather a racket in the pen show's hall, until he finally dislodged the stainless steel plug. He triumphantly showed me the pure plastic barrel. I told him that I'd be sure not to buy that pen from him. I did buy some other, not mutilated, Kaweco Sports from him that day. I refill cartridges for the Kaweco Sports, so I had no interest in making an eye dropper out of one in the first place.

 

I figure that the pounding needed to dislodge the stainless steel plug must cause a lot of stress on that plastic. I didn't think that I'd want to find the barrel threads disintegrating from the abuse years later.

 

Anyway, I do not think that Kaweco is going to make proprietary cartridges for one of their pens that's been mutilated.

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The Kaweco Sport Ice model you have in the photograph has been modified. As they come from the factory there is a stainless steel plug at the distal end of the barrel. It's supposed to give the short, light plastic pen some heft, I think. Those are longitudinal ridges visible inside the end of the barrel in your photograph. They are what grips the stainless steel plug.

 

Anyway, your Sport doesn't have that plug. As the Kaweco Sport comes from the factory you can't fit much more than a short international cartridge in one.

 

I remember a certain vendor was at a pen show some years ago and he was hot about converting Kaweco Sports to eye dropper fillers. He was selling them that way and then he got into encouraging people to make DIY eye droppers out of Kaweco Sports. So he took an ice model to show me how and he started pounding it, open end down, on a table :headsmack: , made rather a racket in the pen show's hall, until he finally dislodged the stainless steel plug. He triumphantly showed me the pure plastic barrel. I told him that I'd be sure not to buy that pen from him. I did buy some other, not mutilated, Kaweco Sports from him that day. I refill cartridges for the Kaweco Sports, so I had no interest in making an eye dropper out of one in the first place.

 

I figure that the pounding needed to dislodge the stainless steel plug must cause a lot of stress on that plastic. I didn't think that I'd want to find the barrel threads disintegrating from the abuse years later.

 

Anyway, I do not think that Kaweco is going to make proprietary cartridges for one of their pens that's been mutilated.

I'm sorry but maybe you were shown a different pen? There is no steel plug at the end of a Kaweco Ice Sport. 17846.jpg?mark64=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qZXRwZW5

 

http://d15bv9e9f3al6i.cloudfront.net/imgs/products/cp/950_constW/KW16045~Kaweco-Ice-Sport-Fountain-Pen-Blue_DTL1_P3.jpg

 

http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-40997485717836/kaweco-ice-sport-fountain-pen-blue-medium-nib-4.jpg

Hero #232 Blue-Black is my Waterman Florida Blue.

 

Your Kilometrage May Vary (#ykmv), a Philippine blawg about ink and fountain pens.

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I have seen other people take the standard cartridge opening and attach a ink sac to it for a sort of home made squeeze-converter for the Sport.

 

If you get a transparent ink sac it might look cool!

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I'm sorry but maybe you were shown a different pen? There is no steel plug at the end of a Kaweco Ice Sport. 17846.jpg?mark64=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qZXRwZW5

 

http://d15bv9e9f3al6i.cloudfront.net/imgs/products/cp/950_constW/KW16045~Kaweco-Ice-Sport-Fountain-Pen-Blue_DTL1_P3.jpg

 

http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-40997485717836/kaweco-ice-sport-fountain-pen-blue-medium-nib-4.jpg

 

As I said, it is pretty easy to get the stainless steel plug out of the end of the barrel. I've got a bunch of Kaweco Sports of various models and they have those weights in them. And I've seen someone extract the stainless steel plug out of one before, and there have been discussions about getting the plug out in order to make them eye droppers.

 

OTOH I suppose that it's possible that Kaweco is not putting the weights at the end of the barrels anymore.

On a sacred quest for the perfect blue ink mixture!

ink stained wretch filling inkwell

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